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| Ministers, politicians commercialize education in J&K | | | ET Report
Jammu, Aug5; Jammu and Kashmir state particularly Jammu and Kathua districts have emerged as hub of Elementary Teacher Training (ETT) institutes with a number of ministers and leaders directly or indirectly running the institutions as money minting machines.
Official sources revealed Jammu and Kathua districts have got lion's share in the private education sector. Out of total 482 ETT institutes operating in the region, around 330 are in these two districts.
Sources said that most people including politicians prefer open ETT institutes in these two districts as agents have strong network in neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajashtan and Himachal Pradesh, where the demand for the course is high.
Official figures suggest that R B ETT College, Kranti ETT College, Devya ETT College and Tredev ETT College in Jammu are owned by Chowdary Lal Singh (MP). Lal Singh also have 4 ETT colleges in Kathua district. Lal Singh also runs Delhi Public School in Kathua. ETT college Narwal is owned by Speaker M Akbar Lone, Choudhary M Hussain owns one ETT college, one B ed college and one Degree college. Hill … B Ed College, Hill … ETT college, Hill… Degree College is owned by Minister for Higher Education Abdul Gani Malik. Senior Congrees leader Gulchain Singh Chadak owns one B Ed college, one degree college and one ETT college in Jammu. New Millennium ETT college owned by Ram Paul, Professor Bhim Singh owns one B Ed college and one ETT college, Minister for Youth services R S Chib owns Chenab B Ed college, Chenab ETT college, Chenab Degree college, MLA Poonch Aijaz Jan owns JAN B Ed College, JAN ETT college and Poonch B Ed College. Speaker M Akbar Lone owns Rehan B Ed college, Rehan ETT college and Auqib ETT College in Srinagar. Guru Ganga B Ed college, ETT College and B Ed colleges are owned by BJP MLA Ganga. Bhanti B Ed College, Shivalik B Ed College and Shivalik ETT college are owned by Harshdev Singh , Novel ETT college Rehari is owned by Speaker M Akbar Lone, former Deputy Chairman Legislative Council Arvinder Singh Micky 1, and MLA Darhal, Choudery Zulifkar Ali owns 2 ETT colleges.
Official sources said that many other politicians were running ETT colleges in the name of their relatives for, this has turned as a huge profit making business in the state as the students of the neighboring states are also preferring the two districts as in most of such institutes attendance of the students is not pre-requirement for the examination.
Notwithstanding many shortcomings detected in most of Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) colleges by the government, opening new colleges continues rapidly and the authorities could not bring reforms owing to the pressure from the power corridors.
If the government data is taken into account, Jammu district alone has 177 ETT colleges, and 159 ETT colleges in Kathua district.
A senior official wishing anonymity said that 70 per cent of the total ETT institutes, colleges in the state have been sanctioned for Jammu and Kathua districts alone and main reason is that there is well knit mafia which is working in connivance with agents in neighbouring states thus earning huge profit during the admission period and politicians running ETT colleges are hand in glove with the agents.
"Each admission fetches Rs 5,000 to an agent and portion of this also reaches to some officials in the education department", said a source.
"Education has become a major money minting business in the state", an official said. He added that most of these institutes are being run by highly influential people with political backing.
Recently a detailed survey was conducted by BOSE which had revealed disturbing facts about the functioning of these institutions. Sources said that some private ETT institutes are running on fake addresses and about 100 institutes are without adequate infrastructure like building or faculty.
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